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Could fit the bill as the replacement for Smyth maybe? Scored quite a few goals the last time he was in league 2

Hope he’s not on Twitter!

Someone saying on Twitter that the CM trialist is Moses Masaki from Shammers.

From Ross Embletons interview after the game it does sound like more players to come in before the window shuts but he says “ we have gone from being the big boys who can go and get who we want when we want to being bottom of the pile and having to wait for others to make their decisions” When were ...

No worries. Tbf I didn’t realise JR had already explained the poor decision. Hopefully do them good to be brought back down to earth before the ashes. Just a shame for the poor folks that wanted to watch some decent cricket.

Fair enough TotW

I’m not saying I think it was a good idea, just that it’s the only reason I can see for them making that decision. We are pants wen the ball is moving about, doesn’t matter who is bowling it. So I guess they thought they should try and test themselves.

Meanwhile the Aussies are having their own competition amongst themselves to see who can be the most .

I would imagine that they made that decision with a view to making sure they got some practice in difficult conditions. Clearly they need it too!

Looks like one of them could be a centre half.

I suppose the point is I can’t rate them as worse or better than GA and LS so I left it as even. The comparison was only meant to be comparing that one promotion season anyway, where as I said earlier GA and LS scored 21 goals between them. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that LA and CW co...

Reading various threads about our current squad and it’s capabilities (or lack of) with regard to performing in league 2, got me thinking about the last time we had a “successful” squad in league 2 and how it compares to our current squad. I don’t know how to post a screenshot of the 2005-2006 squa...

if they can bag 11 goals each they will beat GA and LS from that season. Just need to find the rest of the goals that were spread amongst the others. Lockwood, jabo, Mackie bagged 23 between them.

Yeah, probably didn’t put enough thought into that. Guess it was more wishful thinking than anything else!

Be happy with that 11 for sure.

Agree with the other chap about Simpson too. I guess we don’t really have a comparable CM of that type at the moment. A Vincelot or a Dawson would be nice.

Probably
In all honesty I didn’t intend to do a player v player comparison at first, just wanted to compare the overall squad but was being a numptie and couldn’t see how to post the attachment!
Not a lot of strength in depth in the 06 squad for me.

Fair comments Tbf. I was thinking more along the lines of the current squad not being as bad as some people think rather than as promotion contenders. I just remember us having some truly awful squads during our previous spell in league 2, none of which were bad enough to be relegated! Although some...

Reading various threads about our current squad and it’s capabilities (or lack of) with regard to performing in league 2, got me thinking about the last time we had a “successful” squad in league 2 and how it compares to our current squad. I don’t know how to post a screenshot of the 2005-2006 squad...